Eterm upgrade

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu>]

I've been gone for about 3 weeks and did a dist-upgrade (testing) last
night (Sunday, Sept 23rd) when I got back.

It was a big one obviously (162 packages), but the only issues that
have emerged so far have to do with Eterm. Two issues in fact.

[1] One is that the foreground font is horrible (grainy and blurred).

[2] The second is more mysterious. I get this message when I call Eterm:

         mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty'

    Then the characters 1:2c are printed after the prompt.

This warning comes only from Eterm (not from a login at the console,
nor from xterm, nor from rxvt).  Similarly the font problem is
particular to Eterm.

I call Eterm like this:

Eterm  -v --font 8x16 -O -0 --shade 25 --foreground-color black --login-shell &

Has anyone else seen these problems?

Thanks for any help,

Jim McCloskey